Authoritarian parenting and sexism/misogyny: is there a correlation?

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4. PS: Authoritarian isn't authoritative

I believe and practice authoritative parenting. I saw too many harms over the past 25 years of the anything-goes parenting style, and believe that children need loving limits and should be respectful toward their elders, etc. The difference (one of thousands) between my childhood and theirs is that I say that they're allowed to feel anything they want and it's none of my business--they can hate my guts if they want---but how they behave is everybody's business.

Some of the parents I knew who were abused as kids were terrified to provide any kind of consequences for their kids' bad behavior, like that meant they're authoritarian monsters. I feel bad for them, but that's the price of parenting. You have to be willing to be the bad guy and tolerate their hating you sometimes. We're not helping them by enabling bad behavior.

But John Rosemond types seem to take glee in imposing limits on their kids. it seems more like a power trip than a difficult decision. That's where I get a little suspicious....